The Time Traveler's Wife | 
| Director: Robert Schwentke
Actors: Rachel McAdams, Eric Bana, Arliss Howard, Ron Livingston
Studio: New Line
Category: DVD
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Rating:  117 reviews
Sales Rank: 979
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, Subtitled, NTSC
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
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Memorabilia: No
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Running Time: 107 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: TRNDN095233D
UPC: 794043132353
EAN: 0794043132353
ASIN: B001HN69C2
Theatrical Release Date: January 1, 2009
Release Date: February 9, 2010
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Product Description
A ROMANTIC DRAMA ABOUT A CHICAGO LIBRARIAN WITH A GENE THAT CAUSES HIM TO INVOLUNTARILY TIME TRAVEL, AND THE COMPLICATIONS IT CREATES FOR HIS MARRIAGE.
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A genuinely old-fashioned Hollywood romance with a science fiction angle, The Time Traveler's Wife stars Eric Bana as Henry DeTamble, a Chicago librarian with a genetic disorder causing him to travel through time involuntarily. The screenplay by Bruce Joel Rubin (My Life), based on a novel by Audrey Niffenegger, incorporates some of those crazy paradoxes that are a part of time-travel fiction, but without beating one over the head. Take Henry's introduction to his future wife, Clare (Rachel McAdams), who tells him they've already met even though they haven't actually met. Brain teasers, however, are not what The Time Traveler's Wife is about. In a quite haunting way, the story really concerns what it means to know and love someone at every phase of his or her life. The fact that Henry's life, from Clare's perspective, is hardly linear--he can disappear and turn back up again at different ages--means that she must cherish what is essential about him. Which doesn't mean the couple is immune to periods of unhappiness, including a painful sequence about trying to bear a child--perhaps a child that might also carry the time-traveling gene. While there is nothing particularly exciting stylistically about The Time Traveler's Wife, in many ways it has the simple charms and clear emotions of a 1940s weepie assigned by a studio to one of its journeyman, contract directors. (The film was directed by Flightplan's Robert Schwentke.) A couple of supporting players, Arliss Howard (as Henry's father) and Ron Livingston (as Henry's friend), provide even more reason to recommend this movie as a satisfying experience. --Tom Keogh
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 117
 Beautiful Movie July 26, 2010
Lindsay Earthsong
This is a beautiful, thought-provoking story and the movie is very well done and moving. I loved it very much. Heard the books were even better, but I have yet to read them.
 It feels rather empty... July 20, 2010
Andrew Ellington (I'm kind of everywhere)
The novel by which `The Time Traveler's Wife' is adapted is a lengthy one. The film is barely over an hour and a half. This is a problem. The problem is that, with such a uniquely engaging prose, `The Time Traveler's Wife' needed that extra time to develop its characters and their relationships in order for us, the audience, to care. When all was said and done, I simply didn't care enough.
The film tells the story of Henry, a man who has a rare genetic disorder that causes him to time travel without warning. He can't control it, and this causes him to disappear and reappear at different stages of his own life. The film follows his love affair with Clare, a beautiful young woman who falls in love with Henry at the very moment she meets him, when she is only six years old. She grows up fantasizing about him (or so we are told) and when she finally has him all to herself she realizes that she has to share him with his disease, waiting for him to reappear in her life at the `right' moments. They love one another, but there are always strains to those affections.
Like I said, the concept here is rather engaging. I actually LOVE the idea. I have yet to read the novel, but I gather that it is very good and I am intrigued to read it since if the concept is done justice (and given room to develop) then it should prove itself marvelously entertaining. But that is the main root of this film's problems. Some ideas and or stories are not suited for the big-screen. You simply cannot establish in an hour and half the kind of love needed to sustain this film. The script is lazy and clichéd instead of rich and meaningful. The editing is a problem for it leaves much to be desired, giving us scenarios that don't quite finish themselves. We are always waiting for the film to come to life. The dialog becomes stilted; the performances become generalizations as apposed to real, living, breathing people.
This film needed to be something more epic in scope. It becomes hollow because of lack of depth and structure. While it is, at times, beautiful and even haunting visually, the impact of this film wares off very quickly.
Personally I think this film would have been better suited as a mini-series. Forget the time restraints of a motion picture (although some films transcend those restraints by pushing the envelope), give me six weeks of two-hour segments. That will flesh out this story. That will make Henry and Clare real to the viewer. That will prove their love and cause us to fall head over heals for them as well. This film just fails to deliver any emotional relevancy, and because of that it fails; period.
 Better Than Anticipated July 19, 2010
Glenn Gallagher (Sacramento, CA)
After reading Roger Ebert's review which skewered "The Time Traveler's Wife", I was reluctant to watch the film, but I decided to take a chance, and I'm glad I did, it was much better than anticipated. I haven't read the book, which probably worked to my advantage in enjoying the film - I didn't have any preconceived notions on what the film should be about.
The movie is a good old-fashioned romance. The actual time-traveling isn't treated in any depth whatsoever, except to acknowledge that the time traveler has no control over when he travel through time, he's learned to cope with it (mostly), and his clothes are unable to travel with him, so he always arrives naked (which is one of the main challenges of his time travel, he's constantly breaking into places and stealing clothes). Somewhat surprisingly, everyone in his life that he trusts accepts his time travel as just a "condition" (which is what he calls his ability to time travel).
His wife is the most understanding of everyone, she just accepts the fact that sometimes, her husband will just disappear, then come back a few weeks later like nothing happened.
I think the time-traveling is actually a metaphor for marriage. Sometimes, spouses just up and leave without warning. Sometimes they come back, sometimes they don't. And sometimes, people can be there physically, but emotionally, they are far away and in another time (they are "distant").
The Time Traveler's Wife is a very satisfying movie, and it makes a great "date movie". I saw this with my wife, and she enjoyed it as much as I did (let's face it, the movie was made for women, not so much for guys). Big thumbs up.
Time Traveler Fashion Show July 19, 2010
Aaron Merkel (Kutztown, PA USA)
An okay movie, but nothing really deep or emotional ever happened. The timer traveler's child acted pretty smug about being able to control her time traveling. Why can't you change past or future events? Most of the movie was the main character jumping from time period to time period and hunting for clothing. The movie should have been called "The Time Traveler's Fashion Party." Perhaps the book is more in-depth and emotional, but the movie falls short in my opinion.
 boring July 11, 2010
M. Hayward
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
this movie was so slow and boring i fell asleep and didn't care that i missed parts of it,don't waste your time.it was just plain dumb.
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